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The Twelfth East Asia-Pacific Conference on Structural Engineering and Construction

Central Park Mixed-Use Building in Jakarta

Sugeng WIJANTOa*, Wawan CHENDRAWANb, Teddy BUDJAMINc
a
Director PT Gistama Intisemesta, Structural Engineering Consulting Firm and Senior Lecturer, Civil Engineering Department,
Trisakti University Jakarta, Indonesia
b
Director PT Gistama Intisemesta – Jakarta, Indonesia
c
Deputy Project Director PT Total Bangun Persada, General Contractor, Jakarta – Indonesia

Abstract

This paper describes challenges during the structural design phase as well as during the construction
stage of this mega Central Park Project. Most of the challenges occurred due to the unique architectural
design of this mixed-use building, which consists of three 50-floor apartment towers, a 42-floor office
tower, a podium mall with 12-floor car park building, a 13-floor hotel building on top of the podium and
car park, two layer basement for the entire building complex and a large open space garden at the ground
floor. The total floor area is 720,000 square meters. Up to now, this is the largest mixed use project in
Indonesia.
A series of seismic site response investigation was conducted. The results were then used and
combined with other loads which were taken into account in the structural analysis. Wind tunnel test were
also performed since the current wind loading code in Indonesia has still not covered cases for tall
buildings such as this project. Transfer beams and inclined columns were installed to accommodate some
special requirements for the structural frames. Monitoring of building settlements during construction was
carried out and the outcomes were then compared with the predicted values obtained as the results of the
structural analysis.
The construction was started in September 2007. The soft opening ceremony of the mall and the topping off of the
whole project was conducted in September 9, 2009 and January 5, 2010 respectively.

© 2011 Published by Elsevier Ltd.

Keywords: mixed use building, seismic, wind tunnel, inclined columns

* Presenter
Email: gistama@cbn.net.id

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doi:10.1016/j.proeng.2011.07.173
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1. Introduction

The Jakarta Central Park Project is located at the central of West Jakarta adjacent to several apartment
towers, such as the Mediterania Garden Residences and the Royal Garden Residences. This mega
commercial complex is also known as the Podomoro City, named after its leading property developer: P.T.
Tiara Metropolitan Jaya, a member of Agung Podomoro Group. The total floor area of the project is
720,000 sqm on a site area of 9 out of 21 hectares whole land area including 4 hectares dedicated to create
a green environment. The longest dimension of the mall podium is 442 metres whereas its widest
dimension is 293 metres. So far it is the largest complex of its kind in Indonesia.
This mixed-use building complex consists of three 50-floor apartment towers, a 42-floor office tower, a
podium mall with 12-floor car park building, a 13-floor hotel building with 420 guest rooms on top of the
podium and car park, two layer basements which cover the entire building complex, and a large open
space garden at the ground floor. The 3-D overview and structural ground floor plan of this mega project
are shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1: 3-D Overview and structural ground floor plan of the Central Park project

2. Structural Material and System

The structural system of these buildings is predominated by concrete elements. In general the
combinations of reinforced concrete slabs and beams serve as horizontal structural elements whereas
combinations of reinforced concrete columns and shear walls serve as vertical structural elements. These
two types of vertical elements form a dual structural system to withstand wind and seismic inertia loads.
For large spans in the mall podium and office tower, prestressed concrete beams were constructed.
Canopies, ball room roof and the roof crown were designed and constructed using steel structural
elements and covered by metal panels. Facades of mall and apartment buildings were made of precast
concrete panels whereas facades at the perimeter of the office tower and hotel tower were made of glass.
The concrete compressive strength varies from element to element. Concrete piles use f'c = 45 MPa,
basement floors and walls f;c = 30 MPa; beams and floor plates f’c= 30 MPa; prestressed beams f’c= 35
MPa; column and core walls f’c= 40-55 MPa. All steel reinforcement use deformed bars with steel grade
f’y = 400 MPa, whereas grade 1860 MPa was used for prestressed strands.
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The upper structure was divided into several building blocks and separated by seismic dilatations
using double columns. Three apartment towers stand independently so does the office tower. The mall
podium structure was designed as an integrated part with the hotel building on top of it.

3. Design Loads and Structural Analysis

DP Architects Pte. Ltd. of Singapore and its local partner, PT Arkipuri Intranasional as the design
architects have resulted a unique masterpiece for this mega scale project. Most of the challenges for the
structural designer occurred due to the unique architectural design as well as the largeness of the project.
A solid and clear structural design philosophy was therefore needed to be formulated prior the further
development of the structural design. Besides the gravity loads, two specific loads, i.e seismic inertia load
and wind load were considered in the structural design of this project.
The current Indonesia Seismic Code (SNI 03-1726-2002), which is still based on the UBC 1997,
requires the building to be designed for 500 years return period earthquake with 10% probability of
exceedance in 50 years of the building's effective life time. This will guarantee the building to reach a
“Life Safety” performance level. The maximum base rock acceleration for Jakarta area, which is in Zone
3 of the Indonesia Seismic Map is 0.15g, whereas the peak ground acceleration for soft soil is 0.30g. The
importance factor is determined to be 1.0 while the seismic reduction factors are determined to be 6.0 for
Mall and Hotel and 5.5 for Apartments and Office. These factors were meant for accommodating the dual
systems formed by shear wall and moment frames.
To ensure the seismic response spectrum specified by the current code is suitable for this specific site,
a series of Spectral Analysis of Surface Wave (SASW) tests was performed on site by a specialist
consulting firm. The results reasonably fit well with the response spectrum curve of the current code for
soft soil. Therefore the structural design was mainly based on the requirements set by this code. However,
the adoption of lower seismic reduction factors was meant to take into account the coming new seismic
code which is based on the ASCE 7-05 with 2% of probability of exceedance in 50 years, or in another
word is based on 2500 years return period earthquake. The new seismic map might show a slight increase
of the peak ground acceleration in this area.
For super blocks and high-rise buildings of more than 50 floors, the Jakarta municipality requires a
series of wind tunnel tests to be carried out. For this purpose, a series of wind tunnel tests was conducted
at the VIPAC Engineers & Scientists Ltd, Melbourne Victoria, Australia. Wind tunnel tests were done on
a 1:400 scale model include its proximity surroundings with one km diameter and measured using a very
sensitive High-Frequency Base Balance (HFBB) test. Figure 2 illustrates the wind tunnel test conducted
in the laboratory.
Dynamic loads were recorded using a sensitive, six component base balance which measures three
mutually orthogonal moments and there orthogonal forces. The measured wind loads were then post-
processed to yield equivalent quasi-static total and floor-by-floor loads suitable for use in the final
structural design. The structural loads analyses were done for return period of 50 and 100 year for 2%
damping of the critical and 1000 year for 5% critical damping. The serviceability of the towers was
evaluated at 1% critical damping. For structural analyses purposes the results were then compared to the
seismic effects on the same structural elements. It was found that almost at all cases the seismic effects
still govern the design.
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a. Models of Central Park and surrounding b. Cladding pressure models for each c. A sample of cladding design
existing buildings mounted on a carrousel apartment tower pressure of northwest elevation of
office tower
Figure 2: Wind tunnel test models and a cladding pressure diagram

Three dimensional structural analyses for the upper structure systems were carried out using the
computer programs ETABS ver. 9.20 and SAFE ver 8.04 [Habibullah A, 2001]. The upper structure was
divided into three separated blocks, i.e the apartment tower, the office tower, and the mall podium with a
hotel building on top of it. The whole structure was assumed as fixed at the lowest basement level. It was
stated in the code that the first fundamental period should be in translation and less than 0.18 times
number of storey. Based on the conducted structural analysis the first two modes of each building were in
translation and its first fundamental period was found less than required by the code. The drift value and
maximum lateral displacement of each building were also satisfied the current Indonesian seismic codes.
On Wednesday, September 2, 2009, a tectonic earthquake with a magnitude of 7.3 on the Richter scale
struck the south part of West Java [EERI, 2009]. The main shocks was also felt in Jakarta, with an
intensity of four (IV) at the MMI scale. The Central Park buildings were performed well and no cracks
were found during the post-earthquake inspection.

4. Excavation and Foundation

Activities for removing top soil, carrying out excavation, constructing access roads and drainage
system around the site were started on early July 2007 and totally completed by the end of September
2007. These achievements allowed the ground breaking to be held on September 5, 2007. The total
volume of removed soil was around 200,000 cubic metres. The soil was then used as construction
material for one of the Jakarta's new outer ring roads, located about 5 km from the project site.
A series of slope stability analyses were carried out for excavation purposes. Based on the analysis
result, the open cut method was applied in all excavation area except at some parts, diaphragm walls were
constructed for slope protection.
Soil investigation was conducted based on data obtained from 14 boreholes and 28 CPTs and later
another additional set of 4 boreholes and 10 CPTs. It was shown from the soil investigation results that
soil layers mainly consist of alluvium deposits and therefore formed soft soil layers. Based on these
results a pile raft system was selected. More than 6000 square piles of 450 x 450 mm and 500 x 500 mm
were driven up to 9.8 to 29.1 metres depth on average below the lowest basement floor. The allowable
axial compression, axial tension, and lateral capacities of a 450 x 450 mm pile are 1,500 kN, 300 kN, and
50 kN, whereas the allowable capacities of a 500 x 500 mm pile are 2,000 kN, 500 kN, and 75 kN,
subsequently.
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Static load tests was conducted on seven un-used piles. These piles were tested until they failed to get
the optimum axial compression pile capacity. Together with these static load tests, a series PDA tests
were carried out on 46 piles to check the actual axial compression pile capacity. Another set of 5 tensile
and 14 lateral load tests were also conducted. The results obtained from these tests were used to verify the
pile capacity calculated based on the soil investigation report.
Flat slabs of 50 cm and drop panels of 100-150 cm underneath the columns and shear walls were used
to form the lowest level basement floor around the mall podium area. Integrated with the piles these slabs
form a pile raft system. Similar pile raft system was also applied beneath the apartment and office towers
with a flat slab thickness of 300 cm.
A geotechnical consultant was hired to carry out a series of analyses to predict short term as well long
term settlement of the pile raft system. The various depths of pile penetration due to the existing soil
condition were taken into main consideration. From these analyses a contour map of settlements was
made and used as inputs for further foundation analysis using the computer program SAFE ver 8.04
[Habibullah A, 2001]. Site monitoring was carried out and it was found that the actual settlements had a
similar pattern as predicted and the values were less than calculated.

5. Special Structural Design Case

5.1. Inclined columns

Large voids were designed by the architect at mall podium floors. At higher floor levels, however, the
slabs are fully casted with no openings since they are used for parking area. Due to this configuration,
inclined columns are needed to transfer column loads from the parking floors to the existing columns at
the mall floors. The constraint is to maintain the floor heights at 3 metres and as a consequence transfer
beams were not suitable for transfering the column loads from the upper parking floors right above the
voids down to the void perimeter columns. To solve this problem inclined columns were constructed as
illustrated in Figure 3. In order to obtain more than 45 degrees slope, the inclined columns are constructed
per two floors. To take into account the compression and tension forces on the horizontal beams, a special
modeling was developed in the computer program ETABS [Habibullah A, 2001].

a. A frame section of inclined column

b. Construction progress
Figure 3: Inclined columns at above mall area
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Inclined columns are also used to support shear walls at the hotel tower. These walls could not be
continued down to the lower podium floors which are mall areas. The inclined columns were designed
between the 10th floor and 12th floor to support the loads from 13 floors of the hotel. In this case the slope
is around 15-20 degrees from the vertical column axis. Figure 4 illustrated these inclined columns.

b. Construction progressed below lobby c. Shear wall at perimeter frame of

a. A section of inclined column
hotel level the hotel
Figure 4: Inclined columns below the hotel

At certain areas, tensile inclined columns are also installed to stiffened the structure and to avoid
excessive deflections experienced by beams between the slope and vertical columns. During construction,
these inclined columns are poured with concrete first prior to casting of the other components.

5.2. Slashed cone structure at the mall atrium

An atrium was designed at the east end of the mall. Within this large opening space the architect placed a
stack of circular plates on top of the Ground Floor (level +14.55). The smallest one was placed at the
Upper Ground level (+20.55), the medium size at the first floor (level +25.05), whereas the biggest
circular plate which filled up the void was placed at the second floor (level +29.55) as well as at the roof
level (7th floor). From a distance the configuration of these circular plates seems like a stack of mushroom.
To guarantee its stability and to satisfy its equilibrium of forces, the lowest and middle circular plates
together with the diagonal column of 1250 mm diameter at their centres were tied back by two prestressed
beams into ten perimeter columns. At front there were four slender columns of 15 meters supporting the
biggest circular plate at the second floor.
The outer wall of this atrium at the east end of this building is made of glass supported by a steel frame.
From a distance this part seems like a slashed glass cone with a stack of mushroom inside. Figure 5 shows
the structural stack of those circular plates and their finished shapes as well as its beam configurations.

6. Project Management

PT Total Bangun Persada as a leading general contractor was appointed by the owner for constructing
this mega project. Fourteen set of tower cranes were used and more than 3300 construction workers were
involved to handle 316,838 cubic metres of concrete and 49,265 tonnes of steel. A solid management
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team with appropriate strategy was clearly needed to successfully complete this prestigiuous project
within a limited time. The construction phase was commenced in September 5, 2007 and is currently at
the end of its completion. The soft opening ceremony of the mall and the final topping off of the whole
project was conducted in September 9, 2009 and January 5, 2010, respectively. Since then, some parts of
this building complex have been opened for public.
The project target dates so far were successfully accomplished. It is hoped that the other target
opening dates in 2011 will also be reached.

Atrium void

a. Perspective drawing b. Construction progress c. The first floor lay-out

Figure 5: “Temperate Atrium” structure at the east end Mall atrium

7. Conclusions

The Central Park mixed use project was designed and constructed by professional design teams and
also a leading general contractor in Indonesia. The upper structure of this mega project was divided into
several building blocks and separated by seismic dilatations using double columns. Three apartment
towers stand independently so does the office tower. The mall podium structure was designed as an
integrated part with the hotel building on top of it.
As reported in this paper, the seismic risk and wind loads are considered thoroughly in the structural
analyses. Special structural requirements were incorporated in the structural design of these buildings.
The whole process of design and construction of this mega project has been a very valuable lesson for all
partakers and other interested people at large.

Acknowledgments

The authors gratefully acknowledge the significant contribution of the developer team, all structural
engineers of PT. Gistama Intisemesta, and the contractor team to successfully accomplish this prestigious
project.

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